GEEK: How to find all the files that changed on a given date?

[archerships]

Here's what I came up with:

touch -t 200702270000 /tmp/date_marker
touch -t 200702280000 /tmp/date_marker2
find / -newer /tmp/date_marker -and \! -cnewer /tmp/date_marker2 -exec ls -ld {} \;

But that seems pretty kludgy. Anyone have a better suggestion?

Thanks!

Comments

Nope, that's what I'd do.

[danlyke.livejournal.com]

If I've got something really complex I may use Perl's File::Find module, but touch and -newer is the sort of thing I usually do.

Re: Nope, that's what I'd do.

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Thanks! BTW, I'm trying to get a group of people together to go see 300 sometime soon -- are you interested?

[h-postmortemus.livejournal.com]

Well that's... uh... kludgy, :)
but it works. I was going to suggest ctime but I realize you want JUST files for a given date. So your solution is probably the best, actually.

Alternatively, you could use perl to step through the file tree and look at the date portion of each files stamp. That'd be relatively quick to cobble together.

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Thanks!